August 16: Shadowbane Site Update - New Beta Journal

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A participant in the current beta test describes the path to joining the Priesthood of Saedron.

By IGN Staff

The Priest of Saedron is the name of the latest beta journal on North American publisher Ubi Soft's official site for Wolfpack Studios' upcoming strategy-oriented onlinw world. This snippet reveals a bit about character creation:

The first step in this journey is to choose a base class. As my ultimate goal is to discover and join the Priesthood of Saedron, Healer is the obvious choice as Fighters, Rogues, and Mages cannot promote to Priest.

Each character is allowed a number of runes, but three of those will be filled by race, base class, and promoted class. Those three runes impact the number of trains gained per level for the rest of a character¿s career. I buy three trait runes at character creation, leaving sufficient vacant slots for future disciplines that are available within the game. 'Priest¿s Acolyte' provides a one-time bonus to the Healer's two primary skills, 'True Faith' gives +30* to the mana pool, while 'Witchsight' imparts the basic ability to detect invisibility*.

In addition, there are racial traits that are not purchased, nor do they take up rune slots. Elves are natural swordsman and receive the 'Raised by Elves' bonus to swords. But since I am a healer I will not immediately benefit from this bonus. A Shade would freely receive the Witchsight ability that I choose to purchase.

Shadowbane is currently in closed beta, so information is still somewhat limited, but key features include a complex political system and some unique playable races. - Jonric